NEB Prizes 2023: All Applications

CRN_01 swabs are a response to shortages of supplies during Covid-19 pandemic. The aim was to simplify their manufacturing, allowing for local production. Nowadays, the swabs are made in two stages: injection molded and flocked. The CRN_01 has a one-step production, easier and cheaper. Made from a single material, they can be easily recycled and thus represent the previously unavailable circular approach. In the spirit of biomimetics the form of the swab was inspired by the hummingbird's tongue.

"The Fres(co)h Model" is a participatory architectural experimentation within the "Baltea Lido" project. Promoted by Via Baltea community hub co-managers, the project aims to transform the street in front of the community hub into a pedestrian space, accessible and suitable for everyone. An urban road that turns into a public square thanks to flexible temporary installations inspired by the theme of the seaside,to activate an open, green and pedestrian space for all citizens.

The spatial documentation of one of the most notorious prisons of Ex-Yugoslavia is a response and indignation to a widespread indifference towards inconspicuous buildings that hold the most valuable traces of collective memory. Through the survivors' narratives, this study explores the prison’s potential intertwined between its legacy and spatial qualities, questions the need for physical interventions, and advocates for a separation between architecture and environmental depletion.

Transform lifeless places into a thriving forest with the simple and easy Eco-Mazing Method. We create big mazes out of local deadwood and nature does the heavy lifing. Our maze creation provides the perfect habitat for animals to bring in seeds and accelerate the reforestation process. With our clear, maze-toolkit, even a school class can create their own forest paradise. Join us in creating forests for all and enjoy the added bonus of maze-filled fun with the Eco-Mazing Method.

Imagine the future visions for the Inner Areas is one of the biggest challenges of the contemporary age. We defined our scenario based on social cohesion: a cooperative mountain community, a place for socio-cultural innovation. In its materialization, the project has been structured based on two main pillars, a first includes the necessity of sociocultural infrastructures widespread, and a second regards the re-Inhabitation of the tangible and intangible heritage.

The Upcycling Hub proposes a circular supply chain model for building materials and furniture.
of neighbourhoods and small-scale towns. The main objective is to salvage and then repurpose materials destined for landfill through processes of local upcycling. A network of local actors is brought together, and a physical place is established as the heart of the entire supply chain. This place is called the Hub.

The project works on the idea of a new memorial, where personal memory, like a seed, becomes an active element, not relegated just to the past but capable of growing and creating future. Reconnection with nature is discovered through the image of the life cycle which does not end in death, but continues in the growth of a new collective garden. Dominated by nature, the space will allow people to take care of something and let it grow while learning and respecting biological rythmes.

Our project is about deconstructing daily life in Milan into fragments and reconstructing different experiences of time in a new narrative. Using the site as a foundation, we have created 3 chapters that represent different orders of time: the frozen moment; the time towards death; and the time of growth. We chose different materials to present the story of visualised time for each experiencer.

The project presents a critical reading of the underutilised spaces – or leftovers – of today’s city and investigates a model of urban densification that is conceived to support local communities and their economies. Using the neighbourhood of Nordvest, Copenhagen as a case study, 200 leftovers has been mapped out and sixteen low-impact designs conceptualised. The entire vision aims to offer a replicable design framework which can be implemented through locally driven initiatives.

tunstadtmachen stands for collective urban activation of no-places. Translated as “to do”, “city” and “to make” it creates an active wordplay. “Stadt - City” could also be read as “statt - instead”. We strengthen the processes from the bottom up and balance the forces between formal and informal participation. In our real laboratory, the “Waage”, we research the potentials of empty urban spaces. Together we form a counter culture that takes responsibility for its city and its public spaces.